A team of young Syrian programmers was able to win first place in the Arab World and West Africa Regional Competition (Arab World and West Africa) held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt last November, to qualify for international participation. , In Portugal in late March next year.
The global software competition started in 1971, and Syria has been participating since 2011, and includes solving a range of software issues ranging from 12 to 15 issues of varying difficulty, which must be solved in innovative ways within five hours.
During the challenge, the issues symbolize specific colors; the organizing committee attaches a colored balloon to the group table, so the hall is filled with colorful balloons.
The team of the Syrian Virtual University (RadioActive), composed of Hassan Jaddoua, Hussein Qora Falah, Zuzu, Dr. Jaafar Al Khair and Engineer Ihsan Rifai won the first place in the software competition, winning the regional championship and the competition cup in the Arab world and West Africa.
Engineer Ihsan Rifai said in an exclusive interview with the Observatory of the Future that "those responsible for the competition call it a clash of minds because it requires a great intellectual effort. This is the first time in 20 years that the championship has been taken away from the Egyptian teams. The atmosphere was full of activity and competition. As many issues as possible in the shortest possible time. "
He added that «the first team from the Syrian Virtual University participated for the first time in the Arab competition in 2016, and the following year the Syrian Virtual University hosted the Syrian competition full, in the capital Damascus, and qualified from the Virtual University two teams to the Arab competition, and this year also hosted virtual university competition For the second year in a row, and three teams have qualified to the competition, and participated the rest of the Syrian universities in varying numbers also, and in last year's competition held in China, Syrian universities have achieved middle positions.
The competition will be held in stages, the first between the teams of the same university, then the teams from each university will participate in the competition at the level of one country. Then the qualified teams will participate in the regional competition and then a group of teams will be eligible to participate in the international competition,
- The global software competition was launched in 2008
1971, contains a set of issues must
Solved in innovative ways within five hours.